Word: horror
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Spiegelman's involvement with cartoons began as a child, when his father Vladek brought him horror comics. As a new American immigrant, said Spiegelman, Vladek was "not acculturated enough to know that these were the comics that created juvenile delinquency...
...dimensional images and easy stereotypes are the currency of our dealings with classical music and classical musicians. Mozart is the boy prodigy; Beethoven, the tormented, deaf visionary; Bach the obscure wigged fellow who wrote that neat organ piece they play in horror flicks. In the same vein, Joseph Haydn is remembered as the long-lived "Father of the Symphony" who also penned the great oratorios "The Seasons" and "The Creation. "Yet Haydn's vocal works display a variety that challenges the preconceived notions. Haydn, despite his reputation, was a master of many genres...
...Americans have been fed such a consumerist diet for so long (epitomized by Reagan, but then, even he did not sink this low) that we no longer think it strange that our politicians lack dignity. It is difficult for Americans to step back and remember that the present horror is just that, and not at all a natural or necessary one. And it is almost impossible for us to conceive of politics as actually being noble...
Michelman spoke at length about her own pre-Roe abortion in 1970. "I know first-hand how absolutely essential Roe is to women's rights... Roe vs. Wade saved women from the shame, degradation and horror [of illegal abortions]," she said...
Director Charles Laughton develops a melodramatic tone with eerie background music by Walter Schumann. A sense of looming danger pervades the movie, as a dramatic victory of good over evil slowly unfolds. The Night of the Hunter, written in 1955, is the forerunner of the modern horror film, but this movie retains its tact while keeping up the intriguing suspense...